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 | | The Port of Stockton has donated a 1,000-foot dock to berth the Iowa, which, at 889 feet, stretches about the length of two-and-a-half football fields. |
 | | Richard W. Pombo, R-Calif., who represents the Stockton area, has been so eager for the acquisition that he has tried a number of legislative maneuvers to secure the Iowa for Stockton without the customary bidding between cities. |
 | | While San Francisco has not set aside a pier for the Iowa, the city-county can draw the tens of thousands of tourists needed to keep the ship financially secure and Stockton can't, she said, contending that "after a year, they'd be in big trouble." |
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